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Matt Husband

I am a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St. Hugh's College.

My research interests are in the syntax-semantics interface and language processing:

What is the representation of a sentence meaning?

How are sentence meanings composed online?

What network of brain regions supports the composition of sentence meanings?

To address these and other related questions, my research makes use of behavioral and neurophysiological techniques, from grammaticality judgments and eye movements to electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Selected publications:

Husband, E.M. and Ferreira, F. (2015) The role of selection in the comprehension of focus alternatives. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1083113.

Husband, E.M. and Gansonre, C. (2014) Direct evidence for structural prediction from the processing of auxiliary dependencies: An ERP investigation in French. Poster given at the 6th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lyon, J.M., Husband, E.M., and Ferreria, F. (2012) Contextual and lexical influences on the comprehension of self-corrections: An ERP study. Poster given at the North Carolina Conference on Cognition, Chapel Hill, NC.

VanDyke-Lyon, J.M., Husband, E.M., and Ferreria, F. (2011) Inanimacy as a cue to derived subjects: Evidence from the development of the "semantic" P600. Poster given at the 17th Annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Paris, France.

Stockall, L., Husband, E.M., and Benatar, A. (2010) Retrieving and processing the syntax and semantics of the mass/count distinction. Poster given at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.

Husband, E.M. and Stockall, L. (2010) Lexical telicity?: Processing evidence for and against verbal telicity. Poster given at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY.